Questions tagged [merging-data]

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Merging two arrays with the "+" (array union operator) How does it work?

I have some code that appears to merge the data from two arrays using +=, but it doesn't include all of the elements in the element. How does it work? Example: $test = array('hi'); $test += array('test', 'oh'); var_dump($test); Output: array(2) { …
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Merge two numerically-keyed associative arrays and preserve the original keys

I have two arrays like this: array( '11' => '11', '22' => '22', '33' => '33', '44' => '44' ); array( '44' => '44', '55' => '55', '66' => '66', '77' => '77' ); I want to combine these two array such that it does not contains duplicate and as well…
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array_replace() vs. union operator in PHP

In PHP, (given that $a, $b and $c are arrays) is $a = array_replace($b, $c) always functionally identical to $a = $c + $b? I can't seem to find any edge cases that would indicate otherwise. (just working with one dimension, this question isn't…
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Performance with time related algorithm

I have a function that take 2 arrays ($schedule, $remove), both are arrays of days with time inside, it will remove time from the schedule . Now this function is working fine if I have between 1 & 20 user it takes 2-4 seconds to generate the…
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AS3 Fastest way to merge multiple arrays

I'm trying to write a function where I can specify any amount of array, and the return value will be an array containing the contents of all of the specified arrays. I've done this, but it seems like a really slow and ugly way of doing it: var…
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How to merge two databases in SQL Server?

Both databases have the same schema, but they may experience conflict with primary key in some tables. So I want them to just ignore the duplicate rows, and continue merging further.
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Merge multiple associative arrays and add missing columns with a default value

I have the following code: $a = array('a' => 'some value', 'b' => 'some value', 'c' => 'some value'); $b = array('a' => 'another value', 'd' => 'another value', 'e' => 'another value', 'f' => 'another value'); $c = array('b' => 'some more value',…
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Merging two/three records in rails

I want to merge two profiles into one. What is the best way to do this in Rails. I have two profiles say user1 and user2 and there are at least 30 tables associated with them. Now i want to merge them together so that there should be one profile say…
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Pandas: merge two dataframes ignoring NaN

Assume I have the following two DataFrames: X Y Z 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 1.0 2.0 3.0 3 4.0 2.0 0.0 4 NaN NaN NaN 5 NaN NaN NaN 6 NaN NaN NaN 7 NaN NaN NaN 8 NaN NaN NaN and X.2 Y.2 Z.2 1 NaN NaN NaN 2 NaN NaN NaN 3 NaN NaN…
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changing numeric data variable into date format in R to merge two datasets

I am trying to merge two datasets where date and an id variable are the two common identifiers. In one dataset the date variable is of character type and looked like this: '31jan2013'. We thus used the as.Date function to change it into date format…
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Flip associative array and store new values in subarrays to prevent losing duplicated values

I have a flat associative array which may contain duplicate values. Array ( [for-juniors] => product_category [for-men] => product_category [coats] => product_category [for-women] => product_category [7-diamonds] => brand ) I…
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Merging data frames without duplicating data when several matches are possible

I need merge two data frames, without having duplicate rows/duplicated data if there is more than one match. Basically, if the matching between my dataframes is ambiguous, I would like the ambiguous rows to NOT be matched, and each row to remain…
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Merge associative row data in a 2d array based on a column value

I need to merge the row data of my 2d array where rows share the same messageID value. $myarray = [ [ 'messageId' => '5ACE9D8841', 'sender' => 'john@doe.com' ], [ 'messageId' => '7EE67D8170', 'sender' =>…
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Merging tables that are sorted differently with R

I have 2 big tables. One with identifiers (unsorted), another with a list of identifiers (containing all which are in the first table) plus the associated values for one variable. I want to add a column to my first table containing the associated…
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Resampling and merging data frame with python

Hi I have created a dictionary of dataFrame with this code import os import pandas import glob path="G:\my_dir\*" dataList={} for files in glob.glob(path): dataList[files]=(read_csv(files,sep=";",index_col='Date')) The different dataframe…
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